September 2022

It’s busy season again and based on all the trade shows we’re going to (check them out here and meet us) I wouldn’t fault you for thinking that we don’t have time for major product releases. Well, you’re wrong 😜 

In the next few weeks we’re releasing news of a major new standalone product: Our Digital Design Warehouse. You’re the first to hear about it here. This product has been in the works for a little while. The DDW makes it easy to turbocharge your entire organization’s additive efforts and bring them under one roof.

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People can easily upload any design type & parameters into their library. They can then share those designs with the wider organization (or your suppliers/partners) on a fully permissioned basis of course. Recipients don’t need to have CAD systems (saving you $$) and you don’t have to worry about where your files are anymore. If you want, those files can be linked to your PLM system but we have a full version control package inside DDW too.

But that’s not all. We’ve designed this from the ground up as an enterprise system. We’ve built on our experiences with 2 customization projects to make DDW super easy to whitelabel: Make it appear in your colours and style, so your internal stakeholders and external customers can feel like they’re part of the community. We also have our best-in-class security backing the whole thing, allowing you to share designs securely, whether they’re ITAR/defence or not. If necessary, the system is easily to deploy privately or on-premise, as all our systems are.

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And last but not least, storing & sharing the data is obviously just the start. DDW also builds on Authentise’s really revolutionary openness (I know everybody says this but who else has dozens of actual integrations in the manufacturing space?!). In this initial release we have 2 integrations:

•  2D-to-3D conversions: upload a drawing and we’ll convert it into a 3D file you can print.

• Additive Assessment: Detailed printability analysis & comparison against other production methods to help you decide whether to move forward with this project.

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Suffice to say that the team have hit it out of the park!! I’m super proud and excited to be working with you to help it launch. If you’re interested, please get in touch. And no, this isn’t the only trick up our sleeve. We have one more pre-Formnext announcement, but I’ll tell you about that next time – I promise it will once again be a sneak peak.

Until then!